Posted on 03/11/2023 6:19:52 AM PST by RoosterRedux
When it comes to the subject of UFOs observed over Washington, DC, most aficionados of the topic will knowingly nod and assume you’re talking about the July 1952 event that has been the subject of numerous books and documentaries. If you bring up the “Tic Tac” UFO, everyone immediately thinks of the 2004 encounter involving fighter pilots with the USS Nimitz. But what far fewer people are aware of is that there was a UFO event in the shadows of America’s capital earlier than both of those events, and it may have also featured a bizarre craft resembling a Tic Tac.
The event in question is noteworthy for several reasons, and the tale is gripping. Not only are the details of the encounter well documented, but the records are located in the United States National Archives. Further, rather than some anonymous sightings recorded by the local police, there were multiple military witnesses whose reputations were found to be above reproach. And it was all set down under Project Sign and recorded in the files of Operation Blue Book as Incident 207.
The encounter took place in the skies over Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on November 18, 1948, at approximately 9:45 pm. One or two military aircraft (the confusion will be explained below) were approaching Andrews when they ran into something that none of the pilots recognized flying along with them. Witnesses variously described the object as an “oblong ball” or “oval.” That may or may not be an exact match for a Tic Tac, but it’s quite close (and that brand of candy did not exist in the 1940s anyway). Multiple witnesses both on the ground and in the T-6 aircraft reported that it had “no wings or tail surfaces” and it projected some sort of white beam of light at times. One T-6 pilot attempted to close with it, at which point it exhibited “extreme maneuverability.” The encounter would continue for between fifteen and eighteen minutes, circling over Andrews Air Force Base. And the performance of the object was unlike anything the pilots had seen previously.
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Nothing new here. Just an old, but interesting sighting not too far from the White House.
It was a test of some tech of our own, clearly. Maybe a little messing with the Rooskies heads for laughs.
But it also risks messing with the heads of our own people (this is Andrews AFB after all.)
HA HA That’s hardly a T6 Texan pictured at the top of the article lol
Our tech wasn’t capable of those maneuvers then and isn’t now.
T-6 Texan II (since 1998)
Looks like a T-6 Texan II, which wasn’t produced until decades later. Wrong stock photo. Typical journalist incompetence today.
Yep, I didn’t know the new turboprop aircraft was called “Texan” also.
https://www.military.com/equipment/t-6-texan
The newer turboprop trainer. Not yet produced or even conceived of in 1948.
Was that sarcasm? Um, no. Not in 1948, just over a year after 'Roswell'. If it was, then the WWII 'foo fighters' were ours, too. That's stretching credulity to fantasy. Denial is a warm blanket, but it's an order of magnitude worse to be an active participant in government gaslighting.
Earth is a biologically toxic oasis in this corner of the universe and, I suspect, far rarer than our scientists' little brains can conceive. There is a reason we continue to be gaslit on the topic; nobody will know for sure until they CHOOSE to be forthcoming (likely not in my lifetime).
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